Is this the end for Arsene Wenger? Not according to the man himself. After calling time on his reign at Arsenal, the 68-year-old is already eyeing up his next job, and he'd prefer to work outside of England.

An emotional return to the Emirates as an opposition manager does not appeal top the Frenchman. In one of his final interviews with the club he coached for almost 22 years, Wenger said that it would feel like a betrayal to move to another team within the Premier League.

Everton had been linked as suitors to the departing Arsenal boss but those rumours have died down.

"It will be very difficult for me [without Arsenal]," he said in his interview with Arsenal.com. "At the moment if I want to continue to work, I think I have to move out of the country, because my gut feeling at the moment is that I would feel I would betray my club by staying in England. People might feel that I’ve betrayed what I’ve built here.

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"That is the problem I face at the moment. My club is here, my heart is here and will be forever. As I said in my speech on the pitch after the Burnley game, I’m a fan above all."

So where could Wenger move in the summer if not Everton or another English club? Much will depend on events over the coming weeks as the final games of the season are played across Europe and the international teams contest the 2018 World Cup in Russia.

However, there are a few jobs that, if they are available before the start of next season, could be worthy of giving Wenger a fresh start.

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Real Madrid

What if Zinedine Zidane doesn't complete his hat-trick of Champions League titles this season? Victory for Liverpool in the final in late May could see all the old complaints from earlier in the season return. Prior to Real's victory over Paris Saint-Germain in the round of 16, the Frenchman looked all but certain to be dismissed and replaced this summer.

Without another major piece of silverware to keep his critics at bay, Florentino Perez could decide to roll the dice and bring in someone new.

Or perhaps an old flame? The Real president has long wished to bring Wenger to the Bernabeu and with a squad in need of some refreshment and a few exciting youngsters on the books the outgoing Arsenal manager could be the perfect appointment to pick up where Zidane may be forced to leave off.

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Imagine the football he'd get them playing with the likes of Marco Asensio, Isco, Dani Ceballos and Mateo Kovacic on the pitch alongside the established order of Toni Kroos, Luka Modric and Co. He'd even finally get to coach Karim Benzema.

What's more, 'Wengerball: the Madrid edition' would be able to count on the likes of Raphael Varane and Sergio Ramos to provide the sort of defensive solidity that has been beyond Shkodran Mustafi over the past two seasons.

Barcelona

Real Madrid wouldn't be the only Spanish superpower who could do with appointing Wenger this summer. Ernesto Valverde is already under pressure at Barcelona after watching his pragmatic and well-organised side run out of steam in the second half of the season to suffer a shock defeat to Roma in the Champions League and fail to replicate the success of Arsenal's Invincibles by losing their 37th game of the LaLiga season.

The ex-Athletic Club boss initially bought himself time by shoring up the defence and convincing doubters that he had a unique insight over how to balance his team, as an extremely practical yet unheralded tactical sage.

Unfortunately for Valverde, his system has collapsed twice at the worst possible moment over the past couple of months, and while Wenger would not be a long-term solution he could be an excellent stop gap for the Catalans.

Lionel Messi celebrates (Photo by Shaun Botterill/Getty Images)

An admirer of the finer things in football, and a manager whose track record of developing youngsters and sharpening up the skills of the most technically gifted footballers, his beliefs in how the game should be played would chime with the deep-rooted philosophies that inform Barcelona's approach.

Lionel Messi playing under Arsene Wenger. What a wonderful new adventure that could be for both men as they reach the end of their respective careers on the pitch and on the touchline.

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Borussia Dortmund

Lucien Favre has been linked as the next Dortmund manager, and as a massive outsider for the Arsenal job, but the Bundesliga challengers should also consider Wenger as a potential candidate. He has more experience than most when it comes to developing players, working with youth and adapting to major sales every other year. That's a fact of life for Dortmund. In fact, it's their model!

Yet the German side are also a haven for speed, skill and technical excellence, hence why Wenger signed two of their former players to add those qualities to his team in his final transfer window in charge at Arsenal.

He wouldn't be another Jurgen Klopp. Nor would he be anything like Thomas Tuchel, the manager who left Dortmund last summer and has now taken over at Paris Saint-Germain. That doesn't mean he should be discounted as an interesting new direction for a side so often cast a club on the cutting edge of European football.

Maurizio Sarri on the sidelines during a Napoli match (Photo by Francesco Pecoraro/Getty Images)

Napoli

Rumour has it that Maurizio Sarri is already on his way out of Naples, with Chelsea tagged as his most likely destination. The Italian wants a big pay day after working his way up the leagues and into the Serie A title race and who could blame him?

Depending on which players are sold for serious money this summer, he will leave behind one of the most startlingly attack-minded teams on the continent, with Carlo Ancelotti linked as a potential successor to Sarri.

The former Milan manager would not be a like-for-like replacement, however. Neither would Wenger. Yet the departing Arsenal boss' own principles over how he likes his teams to play would fit in well with the slickness and speed at which Napoli operate.

Their frantic take on possession football, and stars such as Lorenzo Insigne and Marek Hamsik, would fit the Frenchman like a glove. Whether the 68-year-old would want to relocate to a city with such an intense reputation as Naples is another matter but why not? It doesn't sound like Wenger is looking for a retirement home. Not yet anyway.

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Nice

Should Favre complete a move to Dortmund, Nice will need a new manager, and who better than Wenger? Jean Michael Seri may finally be on his way this summer, with a number of Premier League clubs linked to the Ivorian, but something special has been happening on the French Riviera of late.

Nice has become a club where fallen legends rediscover their place in the game. Hatem Ben Arfa and Mario Balotelli have set aside difficult spells elsewhere to recapture their best form and the imaginations of Europe's elite at a club that play good football, and compete for European places in Ligue 1.

If Wenger is looking to downsize after 22 years at Arsenal, Nice could be the one.

Monaco

Leonardo Jardim is another manager who has been tipped to leave his post this summer with a big job elsehwere in the game. The Monaco boss lead his side the final four of the Champions League and the Ligue 1 title last seaon, only to struggle to keep up with PSG as most of his team were sold from underneath him.

Wenger is already a legend in Monte Carlo for his achievements as manager prior to leaving for Japan and later Arsenal. It's often said that in football, players and managers should never go back, but with a booming youth academy and a scouting network able to find talent where no one else can, it might not be the worse idea if Jardim needs replacing.

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Ajax

Chaos has reigned in Amsterdam of late following the departure of Peter Bosz last summer after leading Ajax to the final of the Europa League. He left for an ill-fated and short-lived spell with Dortmund only for his replacement to be replaced by Erik ten Hag in December 2017.

They ended the season second to Feyenoord and look set to lose more of their best and brightest to the richest clubs in Europe, especially in the Premier League. Wenger wouldn't come cheap but if the former European champions are looking for an established name to work to the right principles, who better than the Frenchman?

Marc Overmars, his former winger at Arsenal, is now director of football, and Ajax are a club that has a long history of rebuilding themselves around great managers. That's not to say that Wenger would be able to replicate the success of Rinus Michels or Louis van Gaal but it would be a romantic destination for a manager whose best qualities match up well with what the Dutch giants are supposed to be all about.

N'Golo Kante is comforted by Didier Deschamps after being injured against Bulgaria (Image: NIKOLAY DOYCHINOV/AFP/Getty Images)

France

There isn't a lot of hope for the Didier Deschamps as France manager. He is still blamed by some for getting his tactics all wrong in the final of Euro 2016 as the hosts lost to Portugal in Paris with Paul Pogba locked into a more defensive role, rather than allowed to exploit his greatest strengths. Team selections have been queried and preparations picked apart in the lead up to the 2018 World Cup.

If Deschamps can't get the best out of one of the deepest talent pools in world football this summer, he is expected to leave, or find himself pushed out regardless.

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For many, Wenger is the obvious choice to replace the 49-year-old, but would he be happy with a role as a manager on the international scene? It's no secret that he loves the buzz of working around a club. Within that busy day-to-day schedule would he be satisfied with his work? There's only one way to find out - and what a fitting job for him to take after seeing out almost 22 years at Arsenal.

Honourable mentions

Another international job - Certain sections of the England's support base have longed to see the FA make the call and sound out Wenger over taking the national team job. The man himself has said he believes that countries should be coached by a manager with the same nationality. However, who knows what exciting new job offers could come his way in the weeks ahead? A return to Japan maybe or perhaps a new found hunger to lift the AFCON trophy?

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Major League Soccer, Chinese Super League or another up-and-coming league - There's a whole world outside of England, not just Europe, and MLS and the CLS has already begun to attract some big name managers to work a spell in the USA or China on impressive contracts with an ever-improving stock of players. If Wenger fancies cashing out there's always the Gulf states too.

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